Ludwig von Mises: "The market economy was not devised by a master mind; it was not first planned as an utopian scheme and then put to work." - The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
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| Ludwig von Mises | The problem of rendering the underdeveloped nations more prosperous cannot be solved by material aid. It is a spiritual and intellectual problem. Prosperity is not simply a matter of capital investment. It is an ideological issue. What the underdeveloped countries need first is the ideology of economic freedom and private enterprise. | Money, Method, and the Market Process | p. 173 | Economic Development |